Kabbalah and Science

The science of the 21st Century

Newton claims that reality exists outside of me, whether I am present or not.

According to Einstein, I perceive reality in relation to my velocity. Reality exists outside of me, but I perceive it according to my velocity.

A different approach claims that reality is a combination of what is outside and of myself. Out of this combination emerges in me a picture which is the average of the outside properties and my own properties.

The wisdom of Kabbalah offers a fourth approach – there is no reality outside of me. Outside of me there is ‘Upper Light’. There is nothing in it, and everything that is perceived of it, I perceive according to my own properties. If I will change my properties I will perceive a different reality.

The meaning of this is outstanding – reality is actually just a replica of my own inner properties. The greatest scientists in the world already realize that the wisdom of Kabbalah is the science of the 21st century.

Lesson 1

Kabbalistic vs. Scientific Research

• The development of the Universe
• Science reaches the end of its capacity
• The evolvement of science has not enabled man to control his existence
• The need for balance with the environment
• How is it possible to break out of the limitation of the five senses?

I was asked to talk about the wisdom of Kabbalah and science. Let’s see how this subject can be developed.

What is occurring to us? You already know that humanity evolves according to its level of desire to receive. The levels are root, then Alef, Bet, Gimel and Dalet of the will to receive. To the degree that a person feels the desire to receive, he is pushed by it to connect with his surroundings, to develop his relationship with the place he is in, with the reality in which he exists.

The desire to receive at the root level is a very small one, in which a person feels urges only for animal pleasures. Animal refers to urges that an animal may have, let’s say corporal. These desires include family, food and a small society around him.

Humanity has been developing for thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of years. Baal HaSulam tells us that even before that the earth had been going through periods in which substances erupted, cooled down, hardened, and then erupted inside it yet again. There were a few periods, approximately 17 or 18, of thirty million years each, until earth finally reached a state in which it became adequate for biological life. At this point man started to develop for tens of thousands of years until he eventually became separate and different from the animals by acquiring more than corporal desires. Man focused on desires for money, honor and knowledge, until he eventually arrived to spirituality, which is a desire to receive of the fourth grade – Behina Dalet – spirituality.

It has been determined that from 1995 and on, we began to experience real inner cravings for spirituality because man had already exhausted all of his previous desires. These desires are still mixed up in us, the corporal desires, as well as the desires for money, honor and knowledge. But because we have experienced all of these periods ourselves during our incarnations, these desires become insignificant in relation to the craving for spirituality. We are beginning to reach a state in which we are not satisfied by all of these other kinds of fulfillment.

It is written in the Zohar, as well as other more ancient books about the end of these generations, how at the end of its development the entire human race will reach a state to decide that spirituality is actually the area in which mankind must develop.

Why weren’t we able to get to this desire before? The truth is that there was such a possibility. Baal HaSulam writes in the article “The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Philosophy” that there was a time, around the fifth or sixth hundred B.C., in the period of Plato and Aristotle, when there was a connection between the sages of Kabbalah and the philosophical sages. During this period of time, the possibility was given to the nations of the world to accept the wisdom of the Kabbalists. The opportunity to begin to develop into spirituality (external development) was available instead of focusing primarily on the philosophical intellectual directions that dealt with our matter out of what a person can attain. But somehow something went wrong and whatever the philosophers received from the wisdom of Kabbalah, during the period of ancient Greece, unfortunately remained within the boundaries of philosophy. Kabbalah sages continued with their own studies during the time the philosophers focused on their methods of studying the world. What is the difference between these two paths or whether we study this world as scientists or as Kabbalists? The difference is very essential, very radical and totally polarized. How?

The issue is simple. Our soul is a desire to enjoy, and this desire to enjoy senses with its five inputs the five types of pleasure that are received through vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch. What is going on? I receive information from the outside through five openings in my body about something that I do not know. I have a brain and a memory and all kinds of systems through which I begin to recognize and identify what is received in them, at first according to my education, to my character and then through all sorts of functions that are still not known to us in man, recognizing things, enjoying them, rejecting them or bringing them closer.

All of the inquiries about what is outside of me actually converge inside my vessel, and I, myself, never get out. I may develop new means, like a microscope or a telescope for vision, or all kinds of Radars for hearing, etc. This means that I simply extend my openings, I expand their sensitivity and then I supposedly sense more. They become more sensitive and then I receive inside more bytes of information, but I still receive them inside. That is where they are processed and accumulated, giving me the picture of the world thereby making the image of the world change. Compared to the image of the world that we had a few thousand years ago, today it is different – I know the world better, I know a little more why things happen, I know the connection between them somehow. But still, anything I research, I study what comes in through my five senses.
In actuality, both philosophy and science use this method since they have no other way of developing differently. No matter how many instruments and tools we would make, how much we would know about our body at all of its levels, psychological, psychosomatic, biological and physiological, we will only know it the way we perceive it through these five openings. There is no further possibility of knowing what is outside of us.

Scientists are saying that they have already sensed this problem about thirty or forty years ago. They have exhausted their methods and that what we are discovering today is only additional links within ourselves and of the ways we deal with the world. All of the research is only done through these inner investigations with which it has been proven that we can not achieve control over reality nor even over our own existence. We only perceive matter within ourselves. We somehow reorganize ourselves according to the surroundings in order to reduce the damages. The main thing we learn from science is that each cell, each body, has the right to exist only if it is balanced with its environment. The process of the forces acting on the cell and its reaction is called ‘Homeostasis’. There has to be balance. Without it the body suffers. And so it is even in the most simple and practical way, we are not discussing here some studies beyond nature or outside our universe. Science can not give us even the possibility of normal existence. We only study what is perceived inside of us and we do not know the laws of whatever is outside of us. Outside there is some general law or reality which we do not know. If we would know it we will somehow be able to achieve balance between us and this law and then merit a different life, a “good” life. Meaning, we would not feel ourselves as being in some solid body, which is limited, living a few decades and then perishing. If we would equalize with this general law, we would live like it, we would accept it upon ourselves and then our body would function completely differently.

What I am relaying to you, what modern scientists are saying, is still not the wisdom of Kabbalah. This is what scientists are arriving at and there are several articles about the subject lately. This is their conclusion during the last twenty years. They have discovered this because the desire for knowledge precedes the desire for spirituality. It brings about the desire for spirituality; it proves to man how limited our knowledge of realty actually is. We do not know the external reality, the laws that act outside of us, and because we don’t know them we can’t be in balance with them. Also, we can’t determine our future nor know what will happen to us to change our destiny. We are simply enclosed in ourselves and whatever will happen – will happen. No philosophy and definitely no science, no matter how advanced, will help us know the external reality. And this is what is happening now, at this last stage of current scientific development. Scientists are beginning to recognize the wisdom of Kabbalah. Not the wisdom of Kabbalah that they already tried with all sorts of methods that are out on the market, but our material, which I bring to them in our meetings. Almost immediately we find a common language. Out of science they very quickly reach the same understanding that this is what they need and that this is the next step of development because science only discusses that which can be grasped and studied within the five senses. They realize that it is necessary to get out of the five senses, but they do not know how.